There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
AGNES REPPLIERResistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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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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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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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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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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