“Her experience had taught her that people who insisted on having others recognize their outstanding qualities usually didn’t have any.”

Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Chindi (2002), Chapter 26 (p. 369)

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American novelist, Short story writer 1935

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