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“But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.” quote by Margaret Benson — Download Open image

“But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.”

Margaret Benson

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