The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
AGNES REPPLIEROur dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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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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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 choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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