There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
AGNES REPPLIERThe most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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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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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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