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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
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