The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godl… - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh (22 June 1906 – 7 February 2001), born Anne Spencer Morrow, was a pioneering American aviator, and the wife of Charles Lindbergh

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Birth Name: Anne Spencer Morrow

Alternative Names: Anne Lindbergh • Anne Morrow • Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh • Anne Spencer Lindbergh

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