Agnes Repplier Quotes, Peace Quotes, Struggle Quotes

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

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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

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

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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

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abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

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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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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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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

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the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

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History is not written in the interests of morality.

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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

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