The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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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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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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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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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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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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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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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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