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If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Paul Eldridge

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Paul Eldridge
Age: 94 †
Born: 1888
Born: May 5
Died: 1982
Died: July 28
Novelist
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the United States of America
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