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If you can't do, you had best shut up.

Esther Forbes

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Esther Forbes
Age: 76 †
Born: 1891
Born: June 28
Died: 1967
Died: August 12
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Novelist
Writer
Westboro
Massachusetts
Esther Louise Forbes
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We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.
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they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.
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I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.
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Nobody can make a monkey out of anyone who isn't a monkey to start with.
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