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The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

Margaret Ayer Barnes

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Margaret Ayer Barnes
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: June 16
Died: 1967
Died: October 25
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Reading
Read
Means
Young
Everything
Busy
Mean
Later
Always
Trouble
Life
Education

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