Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our ef…

Lucy Grealy
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Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people. ✨ Lucy Grealy (1994). Autobiography of a Face, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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