“Don’t pay any attention to what she says. Half of it’s always wrong and she doesn’t mean the rest.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
The Menace from Earth (p. 351)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
“She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.”
— Beverly Cleary, book Fifteen
Source: Fifteen
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