We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
AGNES REPPLIERBelievers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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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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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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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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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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