It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
AGNES REPPLIERWe 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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