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Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Age: 57 †
Born: 1896
Born: August 8
Died: 1953
Died: December 14
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Novelist
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Washington
District of Columbia
Marjorie Rawlings
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It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.
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They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.
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