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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.

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Walt Kelly
Age: 60 †
Born: 1913
Born: August 25
Died: 1973
Died: October 18
Animator
Character Animator
Comics Artist
Comics Writer
Journalist
Reporter
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Walter Crawford Kelly
Jr.
President
Means
Kids
School
Mean
Pestered
Even
Elected
Think
Humorous
Thinking
Wants

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