The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
AGNES REPPLIERThe vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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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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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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