But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.
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For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
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Birth: | 24th June, 1831 |
Death: | 29th September, 1910 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Author, Journalist |
Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis was an American author and journalist. She is deemed a pioneer of literary realism in American literature. She graduated valedictorian from Washington Female Seminary in Pennsylvania. Her most important literary work is the novella Life in the Iron Mills, published in the April 1861 edition of the Atlantic Monthly which quickly made her an established female writer.
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