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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

Charles Dudley Warner

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Charles Dudley Warner
Age: 71 †
Born: 1829
Born: September 12
Died: 1900
Died: October 20
Actor
Novelist
Writer
Hampshire County
Massachusetts
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Wincing
Walk
Walks
Moral
Woman
Women
Anything
Without
Crockery

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