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There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
Approximate author period: c. 1930 AD · modern
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- Dorothy Parker
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- Approximate author period: c. 1930 AD · modern
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