Humor brings insight and tolerance.
AGNES REPPLIERBooks 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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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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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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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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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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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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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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