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The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.

Margaret Halsey

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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Life
Ones
Objective
Successful
Objectives
Society
Precious
Often
Gift
Business
Regard
Money
Training
Many
Interested
Wasted
Make
Citizens
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