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To be clear is the first duty of a writer to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

Brander Matthews

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Brander Matthews
Age: 77 †
Born: 1852
Born: February 21
Died: 1929
Died: March 31
Autobiographer
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Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
James Brander Matthews
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