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Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Zane Grey
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Zane Grey
Age: 67 †
Born: 1872
Born: January 31
Died: 1939
Died: October 23
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Baseball Player
Dentist
Film Producer
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Poet
Screenwriter
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Zanesville
Ohio
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May
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Men
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A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.
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These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
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Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.
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