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But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Age: 36 †
Born: 1802
Born: August 14
Died: 1838
Died: October 15
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Letitia Landon
L. E. L.
Letitia Maclean
Letitia Elizabeth Maclean
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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
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the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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