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The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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As the fathers live, so the children play.
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