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Quotes from The Cost of Modern Sentiment — Agnes Repplier

1858–1950 United States

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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.

The Cost of Modern Sentiment (1916)

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