There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
AGNES REPPLIERThe vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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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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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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