Agnes Repplier Quotes, Heart Quotes, Humor Quotes

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.

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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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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

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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.

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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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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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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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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

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Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.

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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

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History is not written in the interests of morality.

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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

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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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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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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

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