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There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
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