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.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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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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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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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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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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