It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
AGNES REPPLIERThe soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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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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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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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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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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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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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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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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