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Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

Lydia M. Child

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Lydia M. Child
Age: 78 †
Born: 1802
Born: January 1
Died: 1880
Died: January 1
Activist
Geologist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
People
Quarreling
Tenth
Wickedness
Half
Happy
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The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.
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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
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