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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplier

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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Men
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Life
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Leisure
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Lives
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Self
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