Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
Agnes RepplierSensuality, 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.
Agnes RepplierIt takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
Agnes RepplierNo rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
Agnes Repplier