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When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

Hugh Prather

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Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
Writer
Hugh Edmondson Prather III
Lint
Picking
Ambitious
Balls
Longer
Lying
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