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When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

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
Meant
Speak
Money
Else
Anything
Drowns

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