Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
AGNES REPPLIERBelievers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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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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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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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 most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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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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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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