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There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Age: 59 †
Born: 1789
Born: September 1
Died: 1849
Died: June 4
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