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Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

Rumer Godden

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Rumer Godden
Age: 90 †
Born: 1907
Born: December 10
Died: 1998
Died: November 8
Author
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastbourne
Sussex
Margaret Rumer Godden
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Tenths
Grown
Unexpectedly
Seven
Submerged
Three
Iceberg
Like
Collision
People
Hurtful
Adulthood
Adolescence
Icebergs

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