Florence King (1936–2016) American writer
"Does Your Child Taste Salty?", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989)
“It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.”
Moiraine Damodred
(15 October 1993)
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“It is easier to tear down a code than to put a new one in its place.”
Frederick Lewis Allen (1890–1954) American historian and editor of Harper's Magazine
Only Yesterday http://books.google.com/books?id=cdmXVzZ5xOsC&q=%22It+is+easier+to+tear+down+a+code+than+to+put+a+new+one+in+its+place%22&pg=PA102#v=onepage, ch. 5, (1931)
Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist
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