Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
AGNES REPPLIERDiscussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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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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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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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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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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