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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Wendell Willkie

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Wendell Willkie
Age: 52 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 18
Died: 1944
Died: October 8
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Wendell Lewis Willkie
Lewis Wendell Willkie
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