I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found. ✨ John Steinbeck …

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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found. ✨ John Steinbeck (1980). Travels with Charley in Search of America, p.43, Penguin
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We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not. ✨ John Steinbeck (1994). Of Mice and Men, p.61, Penguin
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found. ✨ John Steinbeck (1980). Travels with Charley in Search of America, p.43, Penguin

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