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.
AGNES REPPLIERNeatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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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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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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