The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to… — Agnes Repplier Cures Copy Share Image
The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking… — Agnes Repplier Complaining 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 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
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
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the… — Agnes Repplier Insubordination 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
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly,… — Agnes Repplier Beauty Copy Share Image
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence. — Agnes Repplier Depravity Copy Share Image
if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends… — Agnes Repplier Alcoholism Copy Share Image
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose… — Agnes Repplier Boredom 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
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
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Absurdity Copy Share Image
The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation. — Agnes Repplier Analysis Copy Share Image
We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we… — Agnes Repplier Amenities Copy Share Image
It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good… — Agnes Repplier Apprehension Copy Share Image
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. — Agnes Repplier Console Copy Share Image
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are. — Agnes Repplier England Copy Share Image
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle… — Agnes Repplier Element of surprise Copy Share Image
Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance. — Agnes Repplier Change Copy Share Image
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier Funny 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
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting. — Agnes Repplier Historian Copy Share Image
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat. — Agnes Repplier Cat Copy Share Image
