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  ... Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them. _." --MADAME DE STAEEL.

TO
MY AUNT,
MRS. MARTHA W. MILLER, Whose culture and kindness I count among the blessings of my life.


PREFACE.
All of us have aspirations. We build air-castles, and are probably the happier for the building. However, the sooner we learn that life is not a play-day, but a thing of earnest activity, the better for us and for those associated with us. "Energy," says Goethe, "will do anything that can be done in this world"; and Jean...
 
Stael, Germaine De

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stal (April 22, 1766 July 14, 1817) was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad who determined literary tastes of Europe at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version.

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