It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
AGNES REPPLIERreal letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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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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