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

Quote by Agnes Repplier

Book:Essays in Idleness

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Essays in Idleness

This work delves into themes of human nature, philosophy, and the passage of time, offering insights into the author's thoughts and observations on life. more

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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

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Book:Essays in Idleness

Source: Essays in Idleness

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“Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.”

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Book:Points of Friction

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“By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.”

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Book:Books and Men

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“Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.”

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“No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.”

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Book:American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

“the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.”

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“If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.”

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Book:Compromises

Source: Compromises

“Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.”

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Author:Agnes Repplier