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There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
Charles Dudley Warner
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Charles Dudley Warner
Age: 71 †
Born: 1829
Born: September 12
Died: 1900
Died: October 20
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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
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