It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
AGNES REPPLIERfair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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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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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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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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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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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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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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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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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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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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