English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
AGNES REPPLIEROur belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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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.
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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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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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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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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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