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If there is anything I've learned, is that piety is smarter than hate, that mercy is preferable even to justice itself, that if you go around the world with friendly look, one does good friends.

Philip Gibbs

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Philip Gibbs
Age: 84 †
Born: 1877
Born: May 1
Died: 1962
Died: March 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Sir Philip Gibbs
Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs
Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs
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