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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

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A. A. Milne
Age: 74 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 18
Died: 1956
Died: January 31
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