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It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

Owen Wister

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Owen Wister
Age: 78 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 14
Died: 1938
Died: July 21
Novelist
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Germantown
Philadelphia
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Pleasure

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