The 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.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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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 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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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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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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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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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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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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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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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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