Agnes Repplier - Americans and others (1912)

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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

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Like simplicity, and candor, and other much-commended qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

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To be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

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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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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

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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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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

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