Agnes Repplier

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1855 – 1950

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Who was Agnes Repplier?

Agnes Repplier was an American essayist.

Famous Quotes:

  • There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...
  • It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
  • Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
  • We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
  • In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.
  • 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.
  • The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
  • People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
  • The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
  • A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

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Born
Apr 1, 1855
Philadelphia
Nationality
  • United States of America
Lived in
  • Philadelphia
Died
Nov 15, 1950

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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