There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
AGNES REPPLIERThere 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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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 vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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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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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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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 tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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Friendship takes time.
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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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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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