It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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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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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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