There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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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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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Friendship takes time.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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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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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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