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September 29, 2025

"A deadly streak of passivity of a kind that sometimes goes with perfectionism."

Wilfrid SheedWilfrid Sheed
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1930 – 2011
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Wilfrid John Joseph Sheed was an English-born American novelist and essayist.

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