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.
AGNES REPPLIERNecessity knows no Sunday.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Friendship takes time.
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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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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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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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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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