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We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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Edwin Percy Whipple
Age: 67 †
Born: 1819
Born: March 8
Died: 1886
Died: June 16
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Essayist
Journalist
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Gloucester
Massachusetts
Money
Paint
Refinement
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Taste
Originally
Persons
Gets
Tattoo
Person
Break
Breaks
Without
Came
Pockets
Hard
Moment
Manners
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War
Woods
Eradicate
Always
Moments
Somehow
Ornaments

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