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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

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
Temptation
Virtue

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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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