No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
AGNES REPPLIERA real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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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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