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Punctuality is a praiseworthy virtue enough, but as the years went on, Mrs. Todd blew her breakfast horn at so early an hour that the neighbors were in some doubt as to whether it might not herald the supper of the day before. They also predicted that she would have her funeral before she was fairly dead.
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'Come close! Look at mother! Is she better — or is she dead?'... 'She is better!' he said gently, 'and she is dead.'
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Born:
September 28, 1856
Died:
August 24, 1923
(aged 66)
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