Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
AGNES REPPLIERThere are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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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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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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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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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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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.
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