Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
AGNES REPPLIERThe vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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Friendship takes time.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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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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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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