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There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant and that is pretty much all there is of it.

Mary Abigail Dodge

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Mary Abigail Dodge
Age: 63 †
Born: 1833
Born: March 31
Died: 1896
Died: August 17
Essayist
Journalist
Writer
Hamilton
Massachusetts
Gail Hamilton
Pretty
Demands
Whether
Meeting
Comes
Pleasant
Take
Meetings
Thing
Generally
Much
Demand
Life
Duty
Shirking
People
Simply
Unpleasant

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