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The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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Hubert H. Humphrey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1911
Born: May 27
Died: 1978
Died: January 13
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey
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