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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
— Agnes Repplier
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
— Agnes Repplier
Art ... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
— Agnes Repplier
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
— Agnes Repplier
It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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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 comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
— Agnes Repplier
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
— Agnes Repplier
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
— Agnes Repplier
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
— Agnes Repplier
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
— Agnes Repplier
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
— Agnes Repplier
There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
— Agnes Repplier
Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
— Agnes Repplier
To be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
— Agnes Repplier
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
— Agnes Repplier
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
— Agnes Repplier
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
— Agnes Repplier
There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
— Agnes Repplier
I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
— Agnes Repplier
The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
— Agnes Repplier
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
— Agnes Repplier
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
— Agnes Repplier
History is not written in the interests of morality.
— Agnes Repplier
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
— Agnes Repplier
This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
— Agnes Repplier
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
— Agnes Repplier
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
— Agnes Repplier
The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
— Agnes Repplier
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.
— Agnes Repplier
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
— Agnes Repplier
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
— Agnes Repplier
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
— Agnes Repplier
Real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
— Agnes Repplier
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
— Agnes Repplier
We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
— Agnes Repplier
For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
— Agnes Repplier
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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Friendship takes time.
— Agnes Repplier
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
— Agnes Repplier
There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
— Agnes Repplier
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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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.
— Agnes Repplier
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
— Agnes Repplier
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
— Agnes Repplier
Economics and ethics have little in common.
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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.
— Agnes Repplier
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
— Agnes Repplier
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
— Agnes Repplier
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
— Agnes Repplier
Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
— Agnes Repplier
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
— Agnes Repplier
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
— Agnes Repplier
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
— Agnes Repplier
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
— Agnes Repplier
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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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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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
— Agnes Repplier
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
— Agnes Repplier
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
— Agnes Repplier
It is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
— Agnes Repplier
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
— Agnes Repplier
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
— Agnes Repplier