When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
AGNES REPPLIERThere are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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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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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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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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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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