Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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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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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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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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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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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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