An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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