Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
voice storytelling infancy
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
travel children thinking
The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
travel mind desire
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
positive sarcastic attitude
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
phrases speech accepted
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
uplifting country cities
Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
sunshine self ugly
But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
essentials critics reader
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
strong giving tides
If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
civilization people way
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
friendship always-trying giving
It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.
cities community quality
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
customs universality pledge
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
peace world force
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.