Agnes Repplier Quotes about Choices

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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Agnes Repplier

Choices, Want, Trouble

Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing

It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

Agnes Repplier

Teacher, Profound, Choices

Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute