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What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

Alfred Adler

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Alfred Adler
Age: 67 †
Born: 1870
Born: February 7
Died: 1937
Died: May 28
Ophthalmologist
Psychiatrist
Psychotherapist
Vienna
Austria
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