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The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.

Laurence Sterne

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Laurence Sterne
Age: 54 †
Born: 1713
Born: November 24
Died: 1768
Died: March 18
Autobiographer
Novelist
Religious
Writer
Friends
May
Best
Sometimes
World
Differ

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