Agnes Repplier Quotes, Book Quotes, Heart Quotes

There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

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

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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

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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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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.

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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

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By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

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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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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

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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.

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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

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