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Agnes Repplier Quotes

«Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about»
Author: Agnes Repplier (Essayist, Writer) | About: Conversation | Keywords: Adam, Adam and Eve, Eve
«A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.»
«What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!»
«The clear sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it»
Author: Agnes Repplier (Essayist, Writer) | Keywords: sighted, sustain
«It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.»
«There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth»
«Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature»
Author: Agnes Repplier (Essayist, Writer) | Keywords: lawless
«The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth»
«People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization»
Author: Agnes Repplier (Essayist, Writer) | About: Civilization | Keywords: absurdity
«Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.»

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