Humor brings insight and tolerance.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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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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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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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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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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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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