People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
AGNES REPPLIERNext to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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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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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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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 not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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