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Elizabeth Bowen Quotes: Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
         

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.


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Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.





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