Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
AGNES REPPLIERGuests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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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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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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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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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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