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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

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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Infancy
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real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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