The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
AGNES REPPLIERNo rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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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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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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