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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me
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