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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Adela Florence Nicolson

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Adela Florence Nicolson
Age: 39 †
Born: 1865
Born: April 9
Died: 1904
Died: October 4
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London
England
Adela Cory
Laurence Hope
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Virtue
Desire
Often
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