Necessity knows no Sunday.
AGNES REPPLIERTo have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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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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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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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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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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There 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.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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