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Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.
Carolyn Wells
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Carolyn Wells
Age: 79 †
Born: 1862
Born: June 18
Died: 1942
Died: March 26
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New Jersey
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