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Women are the right age for just a few years men, for most of their lives.

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Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
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the United States of America
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Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.
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The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
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It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.
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We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
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When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
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Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.
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A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
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The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.
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The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.
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