Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
AGNES REPPLIERBut 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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