People equipped with reason, sentiment, and a vocabulary should have something to talk about, some common ground on which they can meet, and penetrate into one another’s minds.
Agnes Repplier
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The Luxury of Conversation — Compromises (1904); Complete sentence, page9, defending meaningful conversation and shared understanding. Surrounding discussion read to distinguish Repplier’s voice from quotations of De Quincey, Hazlitt, Montaigne, and Stevenson. Public-domain text.
- The Luxury of Conversation — Compromises (1904)
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