It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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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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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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