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A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

Louis Kronenberger

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Louis Kronenberger
Age: 75 †
Born: 1904
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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