“Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so stong in the historian–if he be a readable historian–is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.”
Agnes Repplier
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“Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.”
Agnes Repplier
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“Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.”
Agnes Repplier
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“The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.”
Agnes Repplier
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“We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.”
Agnes Repplier
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“Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.”
Agnes Repplier
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“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
Agnes Repplier
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“There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania…”
Agnes Repplier
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“People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.”
Agnes Repplier
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