There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
AGNES REPPLIERThe most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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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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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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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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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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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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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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