308:, and of a mother whose personal charm was matched by her firmness of purpose, Margaret was deeply imbued with the values of her parents' generation, and nothing in a changing and, for her personally, much less affluent world induced her to lower the standards in which she was brought up to believe. Among them was total intellectual honesty, physical courage, a disregard for unimportant luxuries and an unemotional acceptance of the pleasant and the unpleasant without pride and complacency in the one case or envy and complaint in the other
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