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Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

Rachel Field

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Rachel Field
Age: 47 †
Born: 1894
Born: September 19
Died: 1942
Died: March 15
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Surround
Desert
Fortune
Happiness
Smug
Much
Greener
Make
Oasis
Good
Surrounds
Like
Unaware

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