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Quote by Agnes Repplier

“Wit is a thing capable of proof.”

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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. more

“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

“Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.”

Love Is Common Patient Symptoms Malady

Book:Compromises

Source: Compromises

“A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.”

Years Deals Example Objects Careful Burden Construction Isolated Ingenuity Undesirable

Book:Americans and Others

Source: Americans and Others

“We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.”

Moral Scales Obligation Height Petty

Book:Americans and Others

Source: Americans and Others

“Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.”

Political Enjoy Healing Doubt Believer Supreme Immunity Faith Healing

Book:Counter-Currents

Source: Counter-Currents

“The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.”

Men Suffering Belief Interest Men And Women Feminist Pitfalls

Book:American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of 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

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