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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Agnes Repplier
Reading, Character, Incidents
Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”

Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.

Agnes Repplier
Reading, Glasses, Vision
Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

Agnes Repplier
Children, Reading, Parent
Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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