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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

Mary Augusta Ward

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Mary Augusta Ward
Age: 68 †
Born: 1851
Born: June 11
Died: 1920
Died: March 24
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Hobart
Tasmania
Mrs. Humphrey Ward
Mary Augusta Arnold
Mrs. Humphry Ward
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Mythology
Myth
Else
Anything
May
Wells
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Respectable

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