I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the be…

William Faulkner
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I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone. ✨ William Faulkner (2011). FAULKNER READER, p.87, Modern Library
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