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My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.


Mary Garden

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MARY LAMBERT Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation wi...
MARY DOUGLAS Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roug...
MARY OLIVER The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
MARY SHELLEY Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to disp...
MARY PIPHER