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Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

Bram Stoker

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Bram Stoker
Age: 64 †
Born: 1847
Born: November 8
Died: 1912
Died: April 20
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Clontarf
Ireland
Abraham Stoker
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