Agnes Repplier Quotes, Party Quotes, Political Quotes

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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The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.

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Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

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Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

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

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

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

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the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

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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 least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

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

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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

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By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

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