The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
AGNES REPPLIERThe pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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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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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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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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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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