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We have kept our children so busy with useful and improving activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who are terrified of silence, of being alone with their own thoughts.

Eda LeShan

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Eda LeShan
Age: 79 †
Born: 1922
Born: June 6
Died: 2002
Died: March 3
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