It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
AGNES REPPLIERThe cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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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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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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