There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
AGNES REPPLIERWoman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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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 nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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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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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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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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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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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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But 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.
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