Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
simplicity quality enthusiasm
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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.
anybody cannot love whom
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
happiness happy women
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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.
truth naked nudity
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
kindness giving quality
to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
shopping world essentials
Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
thinking shifting comedy
For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
girl country believe
There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
dog vanity canine
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
love laughing said
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
phrases fancy virtue
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
conversation adam difficult
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.