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If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
P. D. James
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P. D. James
Age: 94 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 3
Died: 2014
Died: November 27
Member Of The House Of Lords
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Phyllis Dorothy James
Phyllis Dorothy James
Baroness James of Holland Park
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Baroness Phyllis Dorothy James
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the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.
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