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> [By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/by-providing-cheap-and-wholesome-reading-for-the-young-we-have-partly/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/books-that-children-read-but-once-are-of-scant-service-to-them-those/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

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## Other authors on Children 's literature

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-lloyd-alexander-60905.jpg) Lloyd Alexander 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children-s-literature/lloyd-alexander/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-roald-dahl-79338.jpg) Roald Dahl 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children-s-literature/roald-dahl/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-katherine-paterson-55563.jpg) Katherine Paterson 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children-s-literature/katherine-paterson/)

## More by Agnes Repplier

> [The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/the-dog-is-guided-by-kindly-instinct-to-the-man-or-woman-whose-heart/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

> [Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/letter-writing-on-the-part-of-a-busy-man-or-woman-is-the-quintessence/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

> [To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/to-have-given-pleasure-to-one-human-being-is-a-recollection-that/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

> [Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/believers-in-political-faith-healing-enjoy-a-supreme-immunity-from/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

> [Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/philadelphians-are-every-whit-as-mediocre-as-their-neighbors-but-they/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

> [When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/when-the-milk-of-human-kindness-turns-sour-it-is-a-singularly/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

> [Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/conversation-in-its-happiest-development-is-a-link-equally-exquisite/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

> [What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/what-monstrous-absurdities-and-paradoxes-have-resisted-whole/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

> [the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/the-labors-of-the-true-critic-are-more-essential-to-the-author-even/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

> [He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/he-is-your-friend-your-partner-your-defender-your-dog-you-are-his/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

> [Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/our-dogs-will-love-and-admire-the-meanest-of-us-and-feed-our-colossal/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

> [Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/erudition-like-a-bloodhound-is-a-charming-thing-when-held-firmly-in/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/there-was-no-escape-from-the-letter-writer-who-a-hundred-or-a-hundred/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

> [Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/sleep-sweetly-in-the-fields-of-asphodel-and-waken-as-of-old-to/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

> [In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/in-the-stress-of-modern-life-how-little-room-is-left-for-that-most/)

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