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“In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.”

Book:Varia

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Varia

This compilation includes a mix of short stories, poetry, and essays, showcasing the author's versatility and range of interests. more

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Agnes Repplier

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. more

“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

“There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.”

Literature Enjoy Equal Appreciate Discrimination Masterpiece Relish Milton Wordsworth

Author:Agnes Repplier

“Economics and ethics have little in common.”

Littles Common Ethics Economics

Book:Points of Friction

Source: Points of Friction

“It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.”

Children Stills Hard Behinds Education Brother Female Harder Males Speed Checks Inequality Height Crucial Erudition

Book:A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays

Source: A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays

“There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.”

Language Education Liberal Education

Author:Agnes Repplier

“It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.”

Choices Teacher Impossible Demand Miracle Series Profound Expected Enthusiasm Reverence

Book:American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

“Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.”

Desire Belief Passionate Loyalty Acquire Reverence Traits Reverse Animated Passionate Desire

Book:American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

“Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.”

Learning Teaching Busy

Book:Essays in Miniature

Source: Essays in Miniature

“It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.”

Knows States United United States Fashion England Drinking Nervous Cups Tea Nothingness Strain Apprehension Warrants

Book:To Think of Tea!

Source: To Think of Tea!

“English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.”

Civilization England Tea Enjoyment Cricket Derby

Book:To Think of Tea!

Source: To Think of Tea!

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