fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
AGNES REPPLIERNecessity knows no Sunday.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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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.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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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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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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Friendship takes time.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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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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