Agnes Repplier Short Quotes

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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.

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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

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Fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

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Every word misused revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

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Never before or since has any book been so much relished by its author.

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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

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The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join.

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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

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