The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
AGNES REPPLIERMiserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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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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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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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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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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