“Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look back and shudder, realizing how close to the edge of nothingness his being has come.”

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100%: the Story of a Patriot (1920)

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American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist 1878–1968

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