In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and… — Agnes Repplier Delight Copy Share Image
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us… — Agnes Repplier Burden Copy Share Image
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. — Agnes Repplier Century Copy Share Image
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with… — Agnes Repplier Capability Copy Share Image
The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the… — Agnes Repplier Assured Copy Share Image
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. — Agnes Repplier Education Copy Share Image
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of… — Agnes Repplier Constructs Copy Share Image
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests. — Agnes Repplier Built Copy Share Image
Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it… — Agnes Repplier Characteristics Copy Share Image
We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and… — Agnes Repplier Cheer Copy Share Image
the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept… — Agnes Repplier Accepting Copy Share Image
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change… — Agnes Repplier Assurance Copy Share Image
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts… — Agnes Repplier Communication Copy Share Image
I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will… — Agnes Repplier Acquire Copy Share Image
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds… — Agnes Repplier Fancy Copy Share Image
A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations.… — Agnes Repplier Animal Copy Share Image
the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second… — Agnes Repplier Cat Copy Share Image
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute. — Agnes Repplier Accepted Copy Share Image
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Absurdity Copy Share Image
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from… — Agnes Repplier Candor Copy Share Image
to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who… — Agnes Repplier Civilized Copy Share Image
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling… — Agnes Repplier Communication Copy Share Image
A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral… — Agnes Repplier Beloved Copy Share Image
real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being… — Agnes Repplier Human beings Copy Share Image
If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs… — Agnes Repplier Animation Copy Share Image
Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate… — Agnes Repplier Acquire Copy Share Image
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind… — Agnes Repplier Contemplating Copy Share Image
Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things… — Agnes Repplier Discussion Copy Share Image
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are… — Agnes Repplier Amused Copy Share Image
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that… — Agnes Repplier Comfortable Copy Share Image
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of… — Agnes Repplier Candor Copy Share Image
It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding… — Agnes Repplier Always trying Copy Share Image
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a… — Agnes Repplier Change Copy Share Image
I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it… — Agnes Repplier Age Copy Share Image
I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated… — Agnes Repplier Add Copy Share Image
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted… — Agnes Repplier Artificial Copy Share Image
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense… — Agnes Repplier Analytics Copy Share Image
It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the… — Agnes Repplier Behinds Copy Share Image
There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It… — Agnes Repplier Captured Copy Share Image
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new… — Agnes Repplier Change Copy Share Image
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