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Necessity knows no Sunday.

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
Sunday
Necessity

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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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