Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
AGNES REPPLIERThere are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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 most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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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 what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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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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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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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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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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