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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
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