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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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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San Francisco County
California
Gertrude Franklin Atherton
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Frank Lin
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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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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Men are not amusing during the shooting season but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
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Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
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power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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Success is a great healer.
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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
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