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Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

Laurence Sterne

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Laurence Sterne
Age: 54 †
Born: 1713
Born: November 24
Died: 1768
Died: March 18
Autobiographer
Novelist
Religious
Writer
Hands
Chains
Shuts
Men
Task
Captive
Envy
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Tasks
Gate
Fame
Chain
Hand
Opens
Death
Gates
Another
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