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Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
Writer
the United States of America
Things
Emerges
Anyway
Yesterday
Busy
Effort
Character
Littles
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