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Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.

Calvin Coolidge

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Calvin Coolidge
Age: 60 †
Born: 1872
Born: July 4
Died: 1933
Died: January 5
30Th U.S. President
Autobiographer
Lawyer
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Plymouth Notch
Vermont
John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
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