It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
AGNES REPPLIERSensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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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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 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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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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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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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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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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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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