Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
reading glasses vision
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
children reading parent
By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.
cat men vanity
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
talking people sacred
People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
world jokes
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
years example construction
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.
lying book looks
the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
writing men generosity
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
past disease littles
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
people black criticism
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
peace struggle hands
We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
education teaching easy
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
grief bears trouble
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
people literature letters
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.