The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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the 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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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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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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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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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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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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