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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
Never
Complained
Complaining
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Seemed
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