Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
AGNES REPPLIERBargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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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 tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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