The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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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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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Friendship takes time.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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