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.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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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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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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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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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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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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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