Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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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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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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