There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
AGNES REPPLIER
The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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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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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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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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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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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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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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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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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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