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It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for.
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Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.
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There is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.
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Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know it, but I cannot help you... I am only an unnecessary, little, bush commoner, I am only a - woman.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Born:
October 14, 1879
Died:
September 19, 1954
(aged 74)
Bio:
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, self-published in 1901.
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