An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
AGNES REPPLIERThe impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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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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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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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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