Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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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 tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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