Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
AGNES REPPLIEREvery misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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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 impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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