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Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

Anna Seward

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Anna Seward
Age: 61 †
Born: 1747
Born: December 12
Died: 1809
Died: March 25
Biographer
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Eyam
Derbyshire
Swan of Lichfield
Sighing
Distinguished
Sigh
Content
Happy
Without

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