The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
AGNES REPPLIERThere are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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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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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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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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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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