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Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Someone
Seems
Best
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Work
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Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
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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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The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.
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We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.
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Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.
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Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
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