The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
AGNES REPPLIEREdged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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 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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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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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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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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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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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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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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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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