If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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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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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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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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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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