There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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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 cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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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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