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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.

  Agnes Repplier

  Church, Sides, Demand

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

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  Talking, People, Sacred

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”

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• It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

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  Taste, Enough, Bad Taste

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

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• A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

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  Inspirational, Men, Ideas

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

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  Responsibility, Vices, Half

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• The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

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  Cat, Circles, Secret

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

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• The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

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  Education, Teaching, Easy

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.38, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

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  Hurt, Risk, Tools

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

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  Men, Enjoy Life, Leisure

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”

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• Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

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  Art, Doe, Facts

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

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• Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

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  Sorry, Reality, Achievement

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

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

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  Perception, World, Clear

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

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• Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

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  People, Letters, Leisure

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

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  Temptation, Virtue

  Agnes Repplier (1920). “Points of Friction”

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• The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

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  Heart, One Direction, Dear

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

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• The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

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  Travel, Complaining, Would Be

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• A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

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  Grief, Bears, Trouble

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Wit is a thing capable of proof.

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  Proof, Wit, Capable

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• 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.

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  Years, Example, Construction

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.96, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

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  Height, Moral, Scales

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.98, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

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  Fall, Sobriety, Tree

  Agnes Repplier (1916). “Counter-Currents”

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• An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

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  Passion, Political, Wasps

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

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• Friendship takes time.

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  Take Time

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

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• Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

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  Rough Edges, Giving, Fusion

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