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Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

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
Without
Poorly
Functions
Vice
Vices
Enthusiasm
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Virtue

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