I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is ex… - Agnes Repplier
It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is ex…
- Agnes Repplier
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about. - Agnes Repplier
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be soft… - Agnes Repplier
I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be soft…
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do. - Agnes Repplier
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. - Agnes Repplier
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. - Agnes Repplier
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee … - Agnes Repplier
If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee …
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything. - Agnes Repplier
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing d… - Agnes Repplier
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing d…
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