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

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"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization." -- 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.""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.""The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.""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

American Austen the Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781933859866
ISBN-10: 1933859865
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference

Americans and Others (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780217555869
ISBN-10: 0217555861

Americans and Others By Agnes Repplier [World Cultural Heritage Library] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781433095283
ISBN-10: 1433095289

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

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

Books and Men (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780548168356
ISBN-10: 0548168350

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

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

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: 9781444621631
ISBN-10: 1444621637

Compromises (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780217463133
ISBN-10: 0217463134

Compromises 1904 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781112290435
ISBN-10: 1112290435
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Counsel Upon the Reading of Books (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780804604758
ISBN-10: 0804604754

Countercurrents (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780217701440
ISBN-10: 0217701442

Eight Decades Essays and Episodes [Essay and general literature index reprint series] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780804606608
ISBN-10: 0804606609