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One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.

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By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.

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Men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them — not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.

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The apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

Abigail McCarthy

I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.

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It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

Abigail McCarthy

Abigail McCarthy

Abigail McCarthy

Born: April 16, 1915

Died: February 1, 2001 (aged 85)

Bio: Abigail Quigley McCarthy was an American academic and writer, best known as the wife of politician and presidential contender Eugene McCarthy. She predeceased her estranged husband by almost five years.

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