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I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

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