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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
Nurse
Politician
Statistician
Teacher
Writer
Florence
Tuscany
Nightingale Florence
Lady with the Lamp
Angel of Crimea
Miss Smith
World
Nursing
Peculiar
Gifts
Sacrifice
Development
Death
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Conventionality

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