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I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

C. S. Forester

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C. S. Forester
Age: 66 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1966
Died: January 1
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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Cairo
Egypt
Cecil Lewis Troughton Smith
Cecil Scott Forester
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