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That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

Jane Addams

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Jane Addams
Age: 74 †
Born: 1860
Born: September 6
Died: 1935
Died: June 21
Autobiographer
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Political Theorist
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