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I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Suffragette
Writer
London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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Millions
Beauty
Around
Designs
Made
Trace
Always
Piano
Million
Masters

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