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Agnes Repplier Author

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Apr 1855
  • Died: Nov 15, 1950

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.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

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.