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How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?
How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?
Approximate author period: c. 1982 AD · modern
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- R.A. Salvatore
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- Approximate author period: c. 1982 AD · modern
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