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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men.... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Art is never didactic, does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candour (Agnes Repplier Quotes)