If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
AGNES REPPLIERthe tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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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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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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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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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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