We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
AGNES REPPLIERResistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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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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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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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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 depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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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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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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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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