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What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.

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Janet Morris
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 25
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
Mankind
Takes
Rights
Nature
Time
Destroyed

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Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.
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Life to you, Riddler, and everlasting glory.
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Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'
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Wanting neither too much to live, nor too much to die.
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Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.
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