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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

Agnes Repplier

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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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Essayist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Art
True
May
Instructing
Wells
Instruct
Without
Pleasing
Well
Nevertheless
Please
Pleasure

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