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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Rosamond Lehmann

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Rosamond Lehmann
Age: 89 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 3
Died: 1990
Died: March 12
Novelist
Playwright
Translator
Writer
Bourne End
Buckinghamshire
Present
Opportunity
Cannot
Make
People
Opportunities
Equal

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