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.
AGNES REPPLIERThe tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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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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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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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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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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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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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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