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It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Approximate author period: c. 1826 AD · industrial

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Dinah M. Mulock
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Approximate author period: c. 1826 AD · industrial
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Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)

Complete signed selection 348; printed byline: Dinah Maria Mulock; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901

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