Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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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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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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