It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
AGNES REPPLIERA puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
AGNES REPPLIERIf history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
AGNES REPPLIERWit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
AGNES REPPLIERIt 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.
AGNES REPPLIERFor my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
AGNES REPPLIERNeatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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.
AGNES REPPLIERNow the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
AGNES REPPLIERIt 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.
AGNES REPPLIERThe thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
AGNES REPPLIERWhen the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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