The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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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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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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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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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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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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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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