An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
AGNES REPPLIERArt… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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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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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.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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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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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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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