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We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.

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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
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Willa Sibert Cather
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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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Look at my papa here he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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