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“Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.”

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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

“The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.”

Way May Would Be Lost Grows Rooms Travel Tables Complaining Intimate Seats Hotel Motor Voyages Tourists Dining Dining Rooms

Author:Agnes Repplier

“The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.”

Thinking Children Soul Travel

Author:Agnes Repplier

“When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.”

Mind Moments Desire Travel France Contemplating Liable Contemplative Morocco Importunate Labradors

Author:Agnes Repplier

“abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.”

Way Light Pleasure Share Habit Comfort Travel Regard Chosen Landscape Features Realms Sensibility Unnecessary Traveler Jars Grievance Intruders

Book:Compromises

Source: Compromises

“it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.”

Spirit Turns Blessing Travel Trials Bubbles Tourists Mirth

Book:Varia

Source: Varia

“A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.”

Grief Trouble Bears Easier

Book:Compromises

Source: Compromises

“When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.”

Humans Turns Kindness Milk Sour Unkindness Draught Human Kindness

Book:To Think of Tea!

Source: To Think of Tea!

“Wit is a thing capable of proof.”

Capable Proof Wit

Author:Agnes Repplier

“For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.”

Thinking Has Beens Comedy Century Shifting

Book:Varia

Source: Varia

“the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.”

Youth Impression Charming Tenacity

Book:Essays in Idleness

Source: Essays in Idleness

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