There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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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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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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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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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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