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No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

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William Law
Age: 75 †
Born: 1686
Born: January 1
Died: 1761
Died: April 9
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King's Cliffe
Northamptonshire
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