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“The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.”

Agnes Repplier

in "Lectures" (1894)

“The sentiment of to-day is social and philanthropic. … [but] we must forever bear in mind that sentiment is subjective, and a personal thing. However exalted and however ardent, it cannot be accepted as a scale for justice, or as a test for truth.”

Agnes Repplier

in "The Cost of Modern Sentiment" (1916)

“…why should our self-appointed instructors assume that because we do not chatter about a thing, we have never heard of it?”

Agnes Repplier

in "The Repeal of Reticence" (March 1914)