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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rainer Maria Rilke
Age: 51 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 4
Died: 1926
Died: December 29
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