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I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.
Eric Idle
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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
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