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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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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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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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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