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We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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Mary Jane Holmes

Mary Jane Holmes
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Born: April 5, 1825
Died: October 6, 1907 (aged 82)
Bio: Mary Jane Holmes was a bestselling and prolific American author who published 39 popular novels, as well as short stories.
Known for:
  1. The English Orphans (1855)
  2. 'Lena Rivers (1856)
  3. Cousin Maude (1900)
  4. Dora Deane (1858)
  5. The homestead on the hillside (1856)

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