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Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.

Sherwood Anderson

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Sherwood Anderson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1876
Born: September 13
Died: 1941
Died: March 8
Novelist
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Buck Fever
Good
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World
Differences
Difficult
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Occupation
Next
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Taste
Mean
Difference
Work
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