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It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.
Luigi Pirandello
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Luigi Pirandello
Age: 69 †
Born: 1867
Born: June 28
Died: 1936
Died: December 10
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Luwiji Pirandélo
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Personally, I don't give a rap for documents for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.
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