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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1709
AUTHOR: Owen Wister (1860–1938)
QUOTATION: When you call me that, smile!
ATTRIBUTION: OWEN WISTER, The Virginian, pp. 29–30 (1902).

Presumably the forerunner of “Smile when you say that, partner,” familiar to generations of moviegoers.
SUBJECTS: Smile