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What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

Margaret Deland

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Margaret Deland
Age: 87 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 23
Died: 1945
Died: January 13
Author
Autobiographer
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
Mother
Hypocrisy
Think
Prefer
Thinking
Apart
Object
Objects
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Question
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