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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.

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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Loving
Meditating
May
Laws
Tourists
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Reach
Impossibility
Travel
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Soberly
Learn
Tolerance
Amenities
Nature
Recognition
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