Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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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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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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