There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
AGNES REPPLIERWe have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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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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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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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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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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