Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
AGNES REPPLIERAn appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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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.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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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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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 the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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