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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
Gertrude Atherton
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Gertrude Atherton
Age: 90 †
Born: 1858
Born: January 14
Died: 1948
Died: June 14
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Gertrude Franklin Atherton
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Frank Lin
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.
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when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
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Success is a great healer.
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... France is the genius among nations.
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