Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
AGNES REPPLIEREverybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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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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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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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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