Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
AGNES REPPLIERArt… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
AGNES REPPLIERThe least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
AGNES REPPLIERIt takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
AGNES REPPLIERThe diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
AGNES REPPLIERIn those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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.
AGNES REPPLIEREdged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
AGNES REPPLIERI 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 REPPLIERPeople who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
AGNES REPPLIERit is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
AGNES REPPLIERThe universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
AGNES REPPLIERLife is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
AGNES REPPLIERLetter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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