It 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 REPPLIERA world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Friendship takes time.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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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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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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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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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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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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