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Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

Alice Hegan Rice

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Alice Hegan Rice
Age: 72 †
Born: 1870
Born: January 11
Died: 1942
Died: February 10
Novelist
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Shelbyville
Kentucky
Alice Caldwell Hegan
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Come
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Heart
Expectations
People
Hearts
Standards
Sorrows
Sorrow
Exalted
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any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.
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