Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
AGNES REPPLIERIt has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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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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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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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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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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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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