fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
AGNES REPPLIEREconomics and ethics have little in common.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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