I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
AGNES REPPLIERTo be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Friendship takes time.
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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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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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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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