The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
AGNES REPPLIERTo have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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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 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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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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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 carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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Friendship takes time.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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