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He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

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Mary Howitt

Mary Howitt (12 March 1799 - 30 January 1888) was an English poet, and author of the famous poem The Spider and the Fly. She was born Mary Botham at Coleford, in Gloucestershire, the temporary residence of her parents, while her father, Samuel Botham, a prosperous quaker of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, was looking after some mining property. Samuel had married his wife Ann in South Wales in 1796 when he was 38 and she was 32. They had four children Anna, Mary, Emma and Charles. Their Queen Anne house is now known as Howitt Place

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    es el más feliz que tiene el poder de reunir la sabiduría de una flor.

    è felice chi ha il potere di raccogliere la saggezza da un fiore.

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