I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
AGNES REPPLIERTraveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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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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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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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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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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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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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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