Palmer/people

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    When I tried to talk to my father about the kind of work I might do after college, he said, “You know, Charlotte, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to that, and it seems to me that the world really needs good, competent secretaries. Your English degree will help you.” He said this with perfect seriousness. I was an A student at Bryn Mawr ...
    —Charlotte Palmer (b. c. 1925)

    He took as his motto: misfortune is good for something. How many good people have been able to say: misfortune is good for nothing!
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)