An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
AGNES REPPLIERGuests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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