The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
AGNES REPPLIERLetter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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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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