We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
AGNES REPPLIERTraveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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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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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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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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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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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.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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