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The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

George Jean Nathan

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George Jean Nathan
Age: 76 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 14
Died: 1958
Died: April 8
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