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The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

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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
Everyone
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Shock
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Almost
Anyone

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You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
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Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.
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Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.
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Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.
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We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.
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Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
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Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
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