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Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
Bryant H. McGill
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Bryant H. McGill
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: September 29
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