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People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Phyllis McGinley

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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
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Poet
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Ontario
Oregon
Phyllis McGinley
Frightened
Particularly
Sin
Sick
Longer
People
Underprivileged
Sinful
Immature

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Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
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Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.
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