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Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'
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Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?
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Invariably at the last minute somebody in the family unearthed a big bore who of course had no friends, no other place to go for Thanksgiving.
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The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.
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Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.
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In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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Betty MacDonald
Born:
March 26, 1908
Died:
February 7, 1958
(aged 49)
Bio:
Betty MacDonald was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book The Egg and I. She also wrote the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series of children's books.
Known for:
The Egg and I (1945)
Onions in the Stew (1955)
The Plague and I (1948)
Anybody Can Do Anything (1950)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm (1954)
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