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There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.
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I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.
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New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say— it's the most wonderful city in the world.
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All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
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Betty Smith
Born:
December 15, 1896
Died:
January 17, 1972
(aged 75)
Bio:
Betty Smith, née Elisabeth Wehner, was an American author.
Known for:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)
Maggie-now (1958)
Joy in the Morning (1963)
Un albero cresce a Brooklyn
Stories Jesus Told (1962)
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