There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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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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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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