History is not written in the interests of morality.
AGNES REPPLIERNecessity knows no Sunday.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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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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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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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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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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