Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
AGNES REPPLIERAn historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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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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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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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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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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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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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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