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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.
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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Privilege
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Beautiful
Rivers
Fishing
Life
Sea
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Leaped
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Waters
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