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Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.
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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Screenwriter
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Zanesville
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Seven
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Packing
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
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This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
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Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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