In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
AGNES REPPLIERA 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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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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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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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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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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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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