I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which…

Lisa See
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I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same. ✨ Lisa See (2011). Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel, p.5, Random House
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