Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
AGNES REPPLIERThe least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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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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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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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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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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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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