It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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An 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.
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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 clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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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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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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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.
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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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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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