Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
AGNES REPPLIERNecessity knows no Sunday.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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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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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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