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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. - Edith Hamilton

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1867-1963, writer and educator

Born:12th August, 1867
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Starsign: Leo

Author Keywords: Educator, Writer


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Paulo Freire, Virginia Gildersleeve, Benjamin E Mays , Dr James C Dobson, Daisaku Ikeda

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