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Mary Todd Lincoln: [O]thers live on...

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[O]thers live on in a careless and lukewarm state -- not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: Into each life, some rain must fall.

Source: Letter to Mrs. Slataper, 29 Sep 1868; in The Mary Lincoln Letters, by Justin G. Turner, 1956.
-- Mary Todd Lincoln, (Dec 13 1818-1882), US first lady; She suffered mental instability after her husband's death.


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