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The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand.

The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand.

Approximate author period: c. 1954 AD · modern

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Ellis Peters
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Approximate author period: c. 1954 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Edith Pargeter: life dates 1913 to 1995. Wikidata Q237235, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237235 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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