The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
AGNES REPPLIERWit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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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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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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