Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
AGNES REPPLIERMen who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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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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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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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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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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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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