Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
AGNES REPPLIERThe most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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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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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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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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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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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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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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