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" A woman's health is her capital. "

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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" One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. "

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