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Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them.
Richard Davenport-Hines
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Richard Davenport-Hines
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 21
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Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines
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