it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
AGNES REPPLIERPersonally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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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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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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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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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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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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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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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 bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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