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Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.

Phyllis McGinley

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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
Author
Poet
Writer
Ontario
Oregon
Phyllis McGinley
Thinking
Fact
Fever
Facts
Argue
True
Feed
Women
Arguing
Verities
Find
Myth
Starve
Long
Believer
Pressed
Never
Rules
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Think
Cold
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