Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
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.
teaching learning busy
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
civilization tea england
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
teacher too-much taught
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
fashion drinking tea
It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.
teacher profound miracle
It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
joy criticism next
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
humor heart sanity
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...
cat men vanity
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
cat circles secret
The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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.