There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
AGNES REPPLIERTo have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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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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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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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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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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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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