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There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.
Vernon Lee
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Vernon Lee
Age: 78 †
Born: 1856
Born: October 14
Died: 1935
Died: February 13
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