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Edith P. Begner
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“When someone behaves unreasonably ... paradoxically there's always a reason.”
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“Every human being has the right to choose his own end.”
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“... Miss Forsyth was the first to admit that she alone was blessed with a hole in her head through which all learning seeped out, like puffs of smoke.”
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“There had to be a sixth sense to deep friendship, and it was only in time of trouble that one had the opportunity to perceive the rarity of what was being offered.”
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“All the grandiose hopes of youth boil lower and lower with time ... but it's only the vapor that flies away; the essence is still there, increasingly rich and more savory for the absence of all that steam.”
Edith P. Begner, U.S. writer
(1918 - 1989)