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I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

Charlie Chaplin

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Charlie Chaplin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 16
Died: 1977
Died: December 25
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London
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Charles Spencer Chaplin
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