The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except …

Mignon McLaughlin
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The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances. ✨ The Complete Neurotic's Notebook. Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.
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