Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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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.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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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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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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