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The earth can never have enough women like Clara Barton.
Detroit (Mich.) Free Press.
Clara Barton belonged not only to the United States but to the entire civilized world. Boston (Mass.) Globe.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. Proverbs.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
Shakespeare.
A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the best of men. Anonymous.
The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.
J. C. Hare.
Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he. Goldsmith.
If ever there were lost, or omitted, a well-turned joke or a bit of humor by the various members of the Barton family it was clearly an accident. Clara Barton.
Joking decides great things stronger and better of’t than earnest can. Milton-Horace.
THE UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, MAIN STREET, OXFORD, MASSACHUSETTS
Where Clara Barton attended church. Oldest Universalist Church in the world, built 1792. Society second oldest. Organized April 27, 1785. Denomination organized here, September 14, 1785.
SUMMER HOME OF CLARA BARTON, OXFORD, MASSACHUSETTS
Arrow points towards the window of the room where Clara Barton was bed-ridden for several months, through her last fatal illness, in the latter part of 1911.