Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
AGNES REPPLIERThe earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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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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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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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.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Friendship takes time.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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