"A day of bliss is quickly told, A thousand would not make us old As one of sorrow doth— It is by cares, by woes and tears, We round the sum of human years——"
— Sarah Josepha Hale

January 1, 1970

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Editors from the United States19th-century poets from the United StatesWomen born before the 19th centuryWomen activists from the United StatesPeople from New Hampshire
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"Sketches of American Character: Prejudices"; Ladies' Magazine, vol. 1, no. 9 (September 1828), p. 397