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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Age: 68 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 5
Died: 1919
Died: October 30
Author
Poet
Writer
Janesville
Wisconsin
Easy
Along
Everything
Worth
Enough
Dead
Men
Joy
Flows
Life
Goes
Pleasant
Like
Wrong
Laughter
Happiness
Smile
Song
Flow

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