Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.

Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) American abolitionist, activist, journalist, suffragist

Letter to Harriet Seward (1869)
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