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The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
Margaret Halsey
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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
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Yonkers
New York State
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the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.
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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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