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Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

Pierre Corneille

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Pierre Corneille
Age: 78 †
Born: 1606
Born: June 6
Died: 1684
Died: October 1
Dramatist
Playwright
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Emerge
Alas
Disaster
Worse
Fall

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