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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
Charles Horton Cooley
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Charles Horton Cooley
Age: 64 †
Born: 1864
Born: August 17
Died: 1929
Died: May 27
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Ann Arbor
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