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when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
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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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
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the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
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Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.
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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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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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