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

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Agnes Repplier

#Wise Quotes #Fate Quotes #Brave Quotes

“I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.”
“I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.'”
“Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.”
“Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.”
“Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution perhaps the first modern political institution.”
“He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.”
“Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.”
“We're not trying to form a new religion. I think that all the powerful religions are pretty much the same. People like to pretend they are very different, but they are not. They are really about believing in something bigger than yourself, something that's unseen, and about having some faith. That's not such a bad thing to have in the world.”

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