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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

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Ben Jonson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1572
Born: June 21
Died: 1637
Died: August 6
Actor
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
City of Westminster
Benjamin Jonson
Men
Orangutan
Pipe
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Point
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Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!
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