The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
AGNES REPPLIERWhatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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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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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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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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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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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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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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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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