Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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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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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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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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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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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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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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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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