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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1857 AD · industrial
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- Helen Hunt Jackson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1857 AD · industrial
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Helen Hunt Jackson, based on documented lifetime 1830 to 1885. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462363 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462363 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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