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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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