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Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

Isadora Duncan

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Isadora Duncan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 27
Died: 1927
Died: September 14
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San Francisco County
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The Foolish Virgin
Aĭsedora Dunkan
Izadora Dënkan
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Angela Duncan
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