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.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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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 great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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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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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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