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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

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
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Animated
American
Traits
Desire
Reverse
Much
Reverence
Unfaltering
Loyalty
Unshaken
Acquire
Reverses
Passionate
Unbounded
Education
Bestow

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