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Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Mary Augusta Ward

Robert Elsmere (1888)

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Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

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Mary Augusta Ward

Mary Augusta Ward

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Born: June 11, 1851

Died: March 24, 1920 (aged 68)

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