Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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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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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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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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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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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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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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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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