the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
AGNES REPPLIERLove is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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