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.
AGNES REPPLIERWhen the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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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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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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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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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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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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