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.
AGNES REPPLIERPhiladelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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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.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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