I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
AGNES REPPLIERHistory is not written in the interests of morality.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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