Agnes Repplier: Quotes, Bibliography, and a List of Books by Author Agnes Repplier

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"The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them." -- Agnes Repplier

Agnes Repplier (April 1, 1855 — November 15, 1950) was an American essayist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her essays are esteemed for their scholarship and wit.

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"A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.""Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.""Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.""Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.""Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.""Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.""It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.""It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.""It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.""It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.""It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.""It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.""It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.""Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.""People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.""The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.""The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.""The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.""There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.""There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.""We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh."

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Total Books: 246

2010 - J William White Md a Biography (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781142225940
ISBN-10: 1142225941
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

2010 - The Fireside Sphinx (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781142263270
ISBN-10: 1142263274

2010 - Epistol Hoelian the Familiar Letters of James Howell Volume 1 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781142446659
ISBN-10: 1142446654

2010 - Americans and Others (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781142557072
ISBN-10: 1142557073

2010 - Compromises (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781142663308
ISBN-10: 1142663302

2010 - A Happy Halfcentury and Other Essays (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781141583010
ISBN-10: 1141583011

2010 - Points of Friction (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781141604319
ISBN-10: 1141604310
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2010 - Epistol Hoelian the Familiar Letters of James Howell Volume 2 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781141919918
ISBN-10: 1141919915

2010 - The Cat Being a Record of the Endearments and Invectives Lavished By Many Writers Upon an Animal Much Loved and Much Abhorred (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781141018024
ISBN-10: 1141018020

2010 - Essays in Idleness (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781141274116
ISBN-10: 1141274116

2010 - Philadelphia the Place and the People (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781152686144
ISBN-10: 1152686143

2009 - Books and Men (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781151624390
ISBN-10: 115162439X
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2009 - In Our Convent Days (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780217410441
ISBN-10: 0217410448

2009 - In the Dozy Hours (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781151701367
ISBN-10: 115170136X

2009 - Countercurrents (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781444686500
ISBN-10: 144468650X

2009 - Varia (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781117026961
ISBN-10: 1117026965

2009 - Appreciations of Horace Howard Furness Our Great Shakspere Critic (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781113507396
ISBN-10: 111350739X
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2009 - A Happy Halfcentury (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780217670753
ISBN-10: 021767075X

2009 - A Book of Famous Verse (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780217423564
ISBN-10: 0217423566

2009 - The Cat (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780217114165
ISBN-10: 0217114164

2009 - Essays in Miniature (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781459047068
ISBN-10: 1459047060

2009 - Points of Friction 1920 (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2009 - Varia 1897 (Paperback)

2009 - In the Dozy Hours and Other Papers 1894 (Paperback)

2009 - Points of VIew 1891 (Paperback)

2009 - Compromises 1904 (Paperback)

2009 - Essays in Idleness 1893 (Paperback)

2009 - The Fireside Sphinx 1901 (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2009 - Points of VIew (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2009 - American Austen the Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier (Hardcover)

2009 - The Cat Being a Record of the Endearments and Invectives Lavished By Many Writers Upon an Animal Much Loved and Much Abhorred (Paperback) → Paperback

2009 - Americans and Others By Agnes Repplier [World Cultural Heritage Library] (Paperback)

2009 - In the Dozy Hours and Other Papers (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2008 - Epistolae Hoelianae V2 or the Familiar Letters of James Howell with an Introduction [1907] (Hardcover) → Paperback

2008 - A Happy Half Century and Other Essays (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2008 - Counsel Upon the Reading of Books [1900] (Hardcover) → Paperback

2007 - J William White Md a Biography (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2005 - To Think of Tea (Paperback)

2004 - Pere Marquette Priest Pioneer and Adventurer (Paperback) → Paperback

Philadelphia the Place and Its People (Other)

Eight Decades Essays and Episodes [Essay and general literature index reprint series] (Hardcover)

Under Dispute [Essay index reprint series] (Hardcover)

Mere Marie of the Ursulines a Study in Adventure (Other)

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