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Lillian Russell
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“You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you — it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.”
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“I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom.”
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“So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.”
Lillian Russell, U.S. actor
(1861 - 1922)
Born: Helen Louise Leonard.