It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
AGNES REPPLIERPersonally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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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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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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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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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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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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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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