People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
AGNES REPPLIERWhat strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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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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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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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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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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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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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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