the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
AGNES REPPLIERThere are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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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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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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