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It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

Owen Wister

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Owen Wister
Age: 78 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 14
Died: 1938
Died: July 21
Novelist
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
Made
Disappoint
Men
Preaching
People
Hated
Believed
Praying
Neither
Two
Better
Deserved

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