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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.

Mary McCarthy

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Mary McCarthy
Age: 77 †
Born: 1912
Born: June 21
Died: 1989
Died: October 25
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Mary Therese McCarthy
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Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
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most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know it made them feel ignorant.
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