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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Graham Greene

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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
Dangerous
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Success
Coastline
Ripples
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Wider
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Failure

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