We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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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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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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