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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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Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.
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Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.
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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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