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Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

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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