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Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

Mary Collyer

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Mary Collyer
Age: 46 †
Born: 1716
Born: January 1
Died: 1762
Died: January 1
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