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Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
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the United States of America
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My thoughts, I guess, are bitter who but the bitter have thoughts?
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Spite is never lonely envy always tags along.
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God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.
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A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
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We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.
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Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.
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The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
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I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.
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