The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
AGNES REPPLIERThe gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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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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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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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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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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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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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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