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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

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
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Human
Humans
Life
Sweetens
Recollection
Pleasure

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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.
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