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Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty making a heaven while they wait.

Dorothy Richardson

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Dorothy Richardson
Age: 84 †
Born: 1873
Born: May 17
Died: 1957
Died: June 17
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Abingdon
Berkshire
Dorothy Miller Richardson
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