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Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties - French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time.

Frederick Rolfe

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Frederick Rolfe
Age: 53 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 22
Died: 1913
Died: October 25
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