It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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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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