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Time is not so all-erasing as we think.
Constance Fenimore Woolson
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Constance Fenimore Woolson
Age: 53 †
Born: 1840
Born: March 5
Died: 1894
Died: January 24
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Claremont
New Hampshire
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It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?
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