Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor brings insight and tolerance.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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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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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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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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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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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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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 many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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