Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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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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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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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.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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