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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

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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
Biographer
Essayist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Knowledge
Grievous
Hands
Scholarship
Littles
Leisure
Little
Necessity
Many
Burden
Great
Information
Things
Hand
Knowing
Deprives

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