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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson
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Storm Jameson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 8
Died: 1986
Died: September 30
Journalist
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Whitby
North Yorkshire
Margaret Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
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Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.
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