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So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!
Lydia M. Child
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Lydia M. Child
Age: 78 †
Born: 1802
Born: January 1
Died: 1880
Died: January 1
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Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
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