Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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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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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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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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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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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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