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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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