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 REPPLIERA dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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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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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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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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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 impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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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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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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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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