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Pleasure was not the principle of our home. I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.

Source: In Diana Trilling, 91, Cultural Critic, Member of Intellectual Circle, in NY Times, by Michael Norman, 25 Oct. 1996.
-- Diane Trilling, (Jul 21 1905-1996), US author, critic; She wrote Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, 1981.

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