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Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

James Lane Allen

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James Lane Allen
Age: 75 †
Born: 1849
Born: December 21
Died: 1925
Died: February 18
Novelist
Writer
Lexington
Kentucky
Reveal
Determine
Circumstances
Men

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