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Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
Artist
Draftsperson
Drawer
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Lithographer
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Poet
Sculptor
Paris
France
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