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there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

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Patricia Wentworth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1877
Born: November 10
Died: 1961
Died: January 28
Fiction Writer
Novelist
Writer
Dora Amy Elles
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Irritation
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