It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
AGNES REPPLIERLove is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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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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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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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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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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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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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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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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