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The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

Sherwood Anderson

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Sherwood Anderson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1876
Born: September 13
Died: 1941
Died: March 8
Novelist
Writer
Buck Fever
Machines
Sweet
Making
Things
Men
Intent
Carried

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