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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
Author
Baseball Player
Dentist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Zanesville
Ohio
May
Self
Harps
Things
Stepping
Men
Selves
Rise
Stones
Higher
Dead

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