it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
AGNES REPPLIERJust 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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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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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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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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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Friendship takes time.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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