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My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right.
Patricia Wentworth
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Patricia Wentworth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1877
Born: November 10
Died: 1961
Died: January 28
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