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Do not ask me to be kind just ask me to act as though I were.

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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
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Novelist
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Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
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Kindness
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