Economics and ethics have little in common.
AGNES REPPLIERHe is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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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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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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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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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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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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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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