Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
AGNES REPPLIERAn historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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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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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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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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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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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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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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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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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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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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