The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
AGNES REPPLIERThere are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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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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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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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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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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