Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
AGNES REPPLIERThe earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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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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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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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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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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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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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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