It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
AGNES REPPLIERThe English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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Friendship takes time.
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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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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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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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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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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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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