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The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

Lydia Sigourney

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Lydia Sigourney
Age: 73 †
Born: 1791
Born: September 1
Died: 1865
Died: June 10
Autobiographer
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Poet
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Norwich
Connecticut
Lydia Howard Sigourney
Lydia Howard Huntley
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
L. H. S.
Sweet Singer of Hartford
A Lady
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