There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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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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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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