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.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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