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there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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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California
Gertrude Franklin Atherton
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Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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Success is a great healer.
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A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.
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The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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