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.
AGNES REPPLIERThe human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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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.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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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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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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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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