Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
travel children thinking
The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
education teaching easy
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
positive sarcastic attitude
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
temptation virtue
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
grief bears trouble
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
rough-edges giving ease
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.
take-time
Friendship takes time.
hate cat race
The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
people literature letters
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
heart one-direction dear
The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
sunday knows
Necessity knows no Sunday.
laughter memories cheer
We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
proof wit capable
Wit is a thing capable of proof.
play groups fairness
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.