Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
AGNES REPPLIERThe soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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