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There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Age: 87 †
Born: 1823
Born: December 22
Died: 1911
Died: May 9
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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