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When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.
Hesketh Pearson
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Hesketh Pearson
Age: 77 †
Born: 1887
Born: February 20
Died: 1964
Died: April 9
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Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson
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Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.
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