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• The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

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  Travel, Children, Thinking

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• The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

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  Thinking, England, Permit

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.49, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.

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  Travel, Law, Tolerance

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Necessity knows no Sunday.

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  Sunday, Knows

  Agnes Repplier (1912). “Philadelphia: The Place and the People”

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• Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

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  Attention, Way, Steps

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

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  Civilization, People, Way

  Agnes Repplier (1936). “In Pursuit of Laughter ...”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

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  Sweetness Of Life, People, Steps

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• It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

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  Mind, France, Habit

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• If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

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  History, Fluid, Ifs

  Agnes Repplier (1920). “Points of Friction”

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• In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

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  Life, Stress, Fall

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.

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  Book, Trying, Lines

  Agnes Repplier (1908). “A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays”

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• The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.

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  Book, Giving, Principles

  Agnes Repplier (1908). “A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays”

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• What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

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  Taken, Cinema, Has Beens

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

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  Rights, World, Mirth

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

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  Giving, Foundation, Elude

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• It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Littles

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• A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.

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  Cat, Eye, Animal

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

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  Years, Octopus, Letters

  Agnes Repplier (1908). “A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays”

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

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  Irritation, Laughing, Secret

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

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  Girl, Country, Believe

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

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  Art, Life Is, Humour

  Agnes Repplier (1936). “In Pursuit of Laughter ...”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.

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  Strong, Home, Men

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

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  Civilization, Tea, England

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

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  Party, Political, Greed

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

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  Children, Book, Thinking

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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