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The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.
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Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.
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The unfortunate thing is that, because wishes sometimes come true, the agony of hoping is perpetuated.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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Born:
June 8, 1903
Died:
December 17, 1987
(aged 84)
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