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Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.
Wallace Stegner
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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
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No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.
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it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
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