Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
AGNES REPPLIERThe dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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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 impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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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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