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		<title>McGinley, Phyllis -- (Attributed)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation. A take-off from Thoreau.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.</p>
<br><b>Phyllis McGinley</b> (1905–1978) American author, poet<br>(Attributed) 
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A take-off from <a href="https://wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/12539/">Thoreau</a>.						</span>
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		<title>Eliot, George -- Middlemarch, Book 3, ch. 24 (1871)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.</p>
<br><b>George Eliot</b> (1819–1880) English novelist [pseud. of Mary Ann Evans]<br><i>Middlemarch</i>, Book 3, ch. 24 (1871) 
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