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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
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Nightingale Florence
Lady with the Lamp
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.
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diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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