Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
AGNES REPPLIERthe labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Friendship takes time.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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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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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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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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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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