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Gertrude Atherton - The Californians (1898)

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Books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.

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If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

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There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

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Born: October 30, 1857
Died: June 14, 1948 (aged 90)
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