No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
AGNES REPPLIERThe impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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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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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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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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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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