Agnes Repplier Quotes, Failure Quotes, Judgement Quotes

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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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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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

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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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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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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

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

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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

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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 tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

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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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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

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

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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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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

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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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