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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
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