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Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

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Charles Dudley Warner
Age: 71 †
Born: 1829
Born: September 12
Died: 1900
Died: October 20
Actor
Novelist
Writer
Hampshire County
Massachusetts
Agriculture
Blessed
Doe
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