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A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Charles Peguy

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Charles Peguy
Age: 41 †
Born: 1873
Born: January 7
Died: 1914
Died: September 5
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Military Personnel
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Cenabum
Pierre Deloire
Pierre Baudouin
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Overcoat
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Pockets
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