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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Agnes Repplier

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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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Pennsylvania
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