The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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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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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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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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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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