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There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
Essayist
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Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
Conscious
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Workman
Sometimes
Workmen
Work
Sensation
Good
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Unconscious
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