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title: "3 Lily Dougall Quotes - Famous Novelist"
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# Lily Dougall

(1858–1923)   Novelist

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Lily Dougall was a novelist.

## Quick Facts About Lily Dougall

Born January 1, 1858

Died January 1, 1923

Profession Novelist

## About Lily Dougall

Canadian writer... \| Lily Dougall (1858–1923) was a Canadian writer and feminist.

##  Quotes by Lily Dougall

> [Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-dougall/just-as-it-is-the-province-of-science-to-find-out-what-the-facts-of/)

[Lily Dougall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-dougall/)

[Discredit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discredit/)

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> [Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-dougall/our-deepest-mature-conviction-is-that-finite-and-infinite/)

[Lily Dougall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-dougall/)

[Conviction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conviction/)

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> [when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-dougall/when-christian-theology-becomes-traditionalism-and-men-fail-to-hold/)

[Lily Dougall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-dougall/)

[Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christian/)

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