The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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