Agnes Repplier Quotes:
Ocupation: Essayist
Life: April 1, 1855 - November 15, 1950
Birthday: April 1
Death: November 15
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.
source: Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”
topic: Children, Reading, Parent, Children's Literature, Harmlessness
