Agnes Repplier Quotes

• Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the Earth peopled as ever by the inept.

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• A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

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• It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

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• Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

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• Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

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• We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.

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• We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.

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• There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.

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• There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth

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• The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

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• The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.

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• The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

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• The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

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• People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

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• Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

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• It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

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• It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

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• It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

   

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• It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

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• It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

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Agnes Repplier (24)

Birth:	1st April, 1855
Death:	15th November, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist

About

Agnes Repplier was an American essayist. She was born in Philadelphia, of French and German extraction, and was educated at the Sacred Heart Convent at Torresdale, near Philadelphia. She was one of America's chief representatives of the discursive essay, displaying wide reading and apt quotation. Her writings contain literary criticism as well as comments on contemporary life. These characteristics were already apparent in the first essay which she contributed to the Atlantic Monthly, entitled “Children, Past and Present.” Her earliest national publications appeared in 1881 in Catholic World. Although she did write several biographies and some fiction, early in her career she decided to concentrate her attention on writing essays, and for 50 years she enjoyed a national reputation. She was a heavy smoker, and had a conservative's outlook on the issues of the day.

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