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To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
Wallace Stegner
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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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Lake Mills
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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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