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Susan B Anthony: I can see...

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I can see that reap and deep, prayers and bears, . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

Source: Responding in 1987 to an admirer who had written a poem in her honor.
-- Susan B Anthony, (Feb 15 1820-1906), US social reformer, suffragist; She was a social reformer and champion for women's rights; co-founder of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1869.


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