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.
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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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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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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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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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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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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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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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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