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Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop Quotes: Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
         

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.


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Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
         



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