The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
AGNES REPPLIERToo much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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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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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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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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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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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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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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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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