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the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
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 English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.
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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.
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Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.
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