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With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.
Ashleigh Brilliant
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Ashleigh Brilliant
Age: 90
Born: 1933
Born: December 9
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Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant
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