There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
AGNES REPPLIERGuests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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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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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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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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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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