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Anna Letitia Barbauld: The most characteristic...

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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life

Source: Expectations, Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose, 1773.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld, (Jun 20 1743-1825), English poet, writer; She was one of the foremost radical intellectual women of her time; edited the fifty volumes of The British Novelists, 1810.


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