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Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create.

Walter Lippmann

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Walter Lippmann
Age: 85 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 23
Died: 1974
Died: December 14
Journalist
Politician
Writer
New York City
New York
Running
Joy
Exists
Live
Environment
Seeking
Self
Modern
Fantasy
Children
Parent
Neither
Men
Create
Conditions
Love
Imagination
Parents
Uncontrolled
Child
Fine
Stunt
Family
Respect
Provided

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