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.
AGNES REPPLIERThe choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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