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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

“While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.”

Wells May Art Pleasure Please Being True Nevertheless

Book:Points of View

Source: Points of View

“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 portion of our thinking selves.”

Thinking Knows Wells Children Book Self Literature Imagination Train Warm Faculty Portions Old Friends Children's Literature

Book:Books and Men

Source: Books and Men

“I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.”

Thinking Men Giving Wells Amount Politician Vote Give Me Fellows Strive Congress Fellow Man

Book:American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

“America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.”

Wells May America Nations Sound United States Security Position Son Morality Deserve Blessed Income Theology Creeds Adopted Disregard Being Blessed

Author:Agnes Repplier

“The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.”

Knows Needs Mind Wells Values Fall Process Tree Fruit Charm Stem Ripe Sobriety Digestion Tree Of Knowledge Reticence

Book:Counter-Currents

Source: Counter-Currents

“We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.”

Wells Kind May Hands Peace Struggle Ubuntu

Book:Books and Men

Source: Books and Men

“It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.”

Want Wells Has Beens Said Civilization Thousand Spring Luxury Tea Decency Well Said

Book:To Think of Tea!

Source: To Think of Tea!

“The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.”

Men Wells Political Life Is He Man Success In Life Right Time Assured Wrong Time

Book:American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

About the Author

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

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