Agnes Repplier Quotes (12 quotes)

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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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„There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.“
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„The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.“
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„There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.“
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„It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.“
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„Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.“
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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.“
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„It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.“
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„The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.“
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„The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.“
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„It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.“
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„People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.“
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Agnes Repplier
Author born: April 01, 1855
Author died: November 15, 1950
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Writer

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