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> [It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/it-is-hard-living-down-the-tempers-we-are-born-with-we-all-begin-well/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

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