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It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

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Jane Porter
Age: 74 †
Born: 1776
Born: January 17
Died: 1850
Died: May 24
Novelist
Writer
Durham
England
Road
Trouble
Upon
Earth
Made
Smooth
Designed

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none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
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