History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past. - Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Quotesmemo.com

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No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

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