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No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.

Millicent Fawcett

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Millicent Fawcett
Age: 82 †
Born: 1847
Born: June 11
Died: 1929
Died: August 5
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