Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
AGNES REPPLIERA kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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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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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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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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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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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 friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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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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