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Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

Mary Ellen Chase

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Mary Ellen Chase
Age: 86 †
Born: 1887
Born: February 24
Died: 1973
Died: July 28
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Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Town of Blue Hill
Maine
Manuals
Work
Decent
Good
Sake
Labor
Thoughts
Saying
Straightened
Father
Manual
Given

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