The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
AGNES REPPLIERLove is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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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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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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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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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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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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