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My first line of defense against reality is called sleep.

Ashleigh Brilliant

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Ashleigh Brilliant
Age: 90
Born: 1933
Born: December 9
Author
Cartoonist
Epigrammatist
London
England
Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant
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Sleep
Called
Reality
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