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Helen Hunt Jackson: Now and then...

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Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, 1992.
-- Helen Hunt Jackson, (Oct 15 1830-1885), US novelist, poet, essayist; She was an activist for Native American rights; wrote Ramona, 1884.


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