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.
AGNES REPPLIERA kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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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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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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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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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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