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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.

Gelett Burgess

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Gelett Burgess
Age: 85 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 30
Died: 1951
Died: September 18
Novelist
Poet
Boston
Massachusetts
Frank Gelett Burgess
Alan Braghampton
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Thine
Thou
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Wise
Quarrels
Wrong
Flattery
Art
Dating
Mayest
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Maid
Many
Helpful
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Maids

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