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Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up and then they lengthens it out.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens
Age: 58 †
Born: 1812
Born: February 7
Died: 1870
Died: June 9
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Charles John Huffam Dickens
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