There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
AGNES REPPLIEREconomics and ethics have little in common.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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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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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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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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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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