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I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Julia Ward Howe

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Julia Ward Howe
Age: 91 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 27
Died: 1910
Died: October 17
Activist
Lyricist
Peace Activist
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Suffragette
Writer
New York City
New York
Julia Ward
Mrs. Samuel Gridley Howe
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