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25 May 2022

25 Wednesday May 2022

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

With ages come the inner, the higher life.
Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), American abolitionist
and a leader of the woman’s rights movement

17th c.nun's prayer

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