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Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope and I take it to my breast.

Margaret Fuller

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Margaret Fuller
Age: 40 †
Born: 1810
Born: May 23
Died: 1850
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
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