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How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.
Abraham Verghese
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Abraham Verghese
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
Physician
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Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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