We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
AGNES REPPLIERResistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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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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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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