Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
AGNES REPPLIERScience may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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