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If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.
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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