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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

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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Shopping
Compromise
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Essentials
Nobody
Process
Ennobling
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Bargaining

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