There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
AGNES REPPLIERWe 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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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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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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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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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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