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Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.
Gelett Burgess
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Gelett Burgess
Age: 85 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 30
Died: 1951
Died: September 18
Novelist
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Boston
Massachusetts
Frank Gelett Burgess
Alan Braghampton
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The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.
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It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.
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Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.
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If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.
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Most women have all other women as adversaries most men have all other men as their allies.
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I never saw a purple cow I never hope to see one But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.
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