Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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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 labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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