Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
AGNES REPPLIERTraveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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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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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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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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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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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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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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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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