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By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Age: 94 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2001
Died: February 7
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America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
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Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.
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Love is a force.... It is not a result it is a cause. It is not a product it produces.
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