Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
AGNES REPPLIERThere are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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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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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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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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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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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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