If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
AGNES REPPLIERWhat puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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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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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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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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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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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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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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