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The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
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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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.
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The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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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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