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• Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

  Agnes Repplier

  Teacher, Too Much, Taught

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

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• if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

  Agnes Repplier

  Lying, Drinking, Men

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

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• Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

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  Women, Soul, Secret

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

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• Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

  Agnes Repplier

  Humor, Obscure, Social

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

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• But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

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  Sunshine, Self, Ugly

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

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  Thinking, History, Study

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

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  Office, Novelists, Fiction

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

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• it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.

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  Travel, Blessing, Trials

  Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

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• There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

  Agnes Repplier

  Education, Language, Liberal Education

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• Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

  Agnes Repplier

  Thinking, Giving, Likes

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• the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

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  Youth, Tenacity, Charming

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”

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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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  Spring, Civilization, Luxury

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

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• 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.

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  Fashion, Drinking, Tea

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

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• When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

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  Kindness, Milk, Draught

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

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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 judgement our chances and our capabilities.

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  Failure, Judgement, May

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

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• Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

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  Guests, Leisure, Delight

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

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• If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

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  Church, Sides, Demand

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Spring

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

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• Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

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  Laughter, Spring, Heart

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

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• The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

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  Views, Doe, Indifference

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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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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  Women, Elation, Currents

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

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• Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

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  Loyalty, Passionate Desire, Belief

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

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• 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.

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  Lying, Book, Looks

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• History is not written in the interests of morality.

  Agnes Repplier

  History, Morality, Interest

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• If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.

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  Strong, Giving, Tides

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

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