The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
AGNES REPPLIERWhen the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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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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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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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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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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