Agnes Repplier Quotes, Years Quotes, Octopus Quotes

There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

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

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Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.

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

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

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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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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

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

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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.

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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

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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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Economics and ethics have little in common.

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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

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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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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

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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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