Elizabeth Peters (1927–2013) American author and egyptologist
Source: The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog
“an optimist is a guy
that has never had
much experience”
certain maxims of archy
archy and mehitabel (1927)
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Page 352-353.
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A Curmudgeon (1961).
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Lord Mayor’s Banquet, Guildhall, London (9 November 1954) The Unwritten Alliance, page 195, Columbia University, NY (1966),page 195,
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