It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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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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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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