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No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.

William H. Prescott

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William H. Prescott
Age: 62 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: January 29
Historian
Jurist
Writer
Salem
Massachusetts
William H. Prescott
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