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Margaret Ogilvy

Margaret Ogilvy

Margaret Ogilvy: Life Is a Long Lesson in Humility is a biographical book written in the late 19th century by J. M. Barrie, about his mother and family life in Scotland. According to The Bookman, it was the 7th bestselling book of 1897 in the United States.


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“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.”

Source: Margaret Ogilvy (1897), Ch. 8

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