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.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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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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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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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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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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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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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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