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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
Essayist
Poet
Translator
Writer
Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
Seems
Radium
Honesty
Valuable
However
Dangerous

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