A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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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 cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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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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