"Wealth and all its good things becomes with us at last habit. And habit is life."
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The Leopard's Spots (1902), bk. 2, ch. 22
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Thomas Dixon Jr.
Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was an American polymath: a Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, lecturer, writer, and filmmaker. Dixon wrote two best-selling novels, ' (1902) and ' (1905), that romanticized Southern white supremacy, endorsed the , opposed equal rights for black people, and glorified the Ku Klux Klan as heroic vigilantes. Film director adapted The Clansman for the screen as The Birth of a Nation (1915). The film inspired the creators of the 20th-ce
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