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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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Denis Charles Pratt
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