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If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some memoraboble homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin' it, even if they don't know what it means.
Walt Kelly
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Walt Kelly
Age: 60 †
Born: 1913
Born: August 25
Died: 1973
Died: October 18
Animator
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Walter Crawford Kelly
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