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It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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Sarah Orne Jewett
Age: 60 †
Born: 1849
Born: September 3
Died: 1909
Died: December 24
Novelist
Poet
Writer
York County
Maine
Sara Orne Jewett
Sara Jewett
Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett
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