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Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true but there is the slime.
Douglas William Jerrold
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Douglas William Jerrold
Age: 54 †
Born: 1803
Born: January 1
Died: 1857
Died: January 1
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