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Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.

Francis Alexander Durivage

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Francis Alexander Durivage
Age: 67 †
Born: 1814
Born: January 1
Died: 1881
Died: January 1
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