The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
AGNES REPPLIERThere are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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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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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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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.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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