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Quote by Mignon McLaughlin
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. – Mignon McLaughlin

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There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. – Mignon McLaughlin

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