It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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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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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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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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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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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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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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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 labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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