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I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
Margaret Deland
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Margaret Deland
Age: 87 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 23
Died: 1945
Died: January 13
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Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.
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