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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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I am an old man who will live until I die, Anselmo said.
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If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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