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Agnes Repplier was an American essayist born on April 1, 1855, and died on November 15, 1950. Her works are renowned for their profound thoughts and unique style, which have had a profound impact on American literature in the 20th century.

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Famous Agnes Repplier Quotes

“the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.”

Littles Actors Audience Theater Court Supreme Factors Appeals Minors Supreme Court Irresponsible Infallible Verdict

Author:Agnes Repplier

“This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.”

Heart Littles Home Turns House Domesticity Sphinx

Book:Essays in Idleness

Source: Essays in Idleness

“Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.”

May Littles Reading Vision Clear Security Fields Conscious Glasses Wide Tales Unconscious Outlook Diaries Closeness Gazing Candor

Book:Varia

Source: Varia

“Economics and ethics have little in common.”

Littles Common Ethics Economics

Book:Points of Friction

Source: Points of Friction

“It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Littles Feelings Too Much Unwise

Author:Agnes Repplier

“Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.”

Men Needs Feels Believe Littles Culture Found Grace Fortune Exceptional Good Fortune

Book:Under dispute

Source: Under dispute

“The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.”

Littles Hands Knowledge Knowing Information Burden Great Men Leisure Scholarship

Book:In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

Source: In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

“In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin”

Life Mean Littles Fall Winning Left Rooms Modern Taught Comfortable Ears Stress Faults Ruins Vanity Merit Modern Life Infancy Vigilance Incapacity Fallibility

Book:Books and Men

Source: Books and Men

“The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.”

Littles Past Dies Common Disease Save Nature

Author:Agnes Repplier

About the Author

Born: April 1, 1855
Died: November 15, 1950
Known for: Essayist
Quotes: 200

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American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes RepplierRelated source material

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Essays in IdlenessRelated source material

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In Pursuit of Laughter ...Related source material

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