Agnes Repplier Quotes, Thinking Quotes, History Quotes

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.

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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

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There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

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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.

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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.

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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

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the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

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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.

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Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

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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.

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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

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