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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

Agnes Repplier

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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
Biographer
Essayist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Vices
Stronger
Miserliness
Grows
Sordid
Pleasure
Yields
Ends
Increasing
Years
Pleasures
Vice
Yield

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