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It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.
Richard Steele
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Richard Steele
Age: 57 †
Born: 1672
Born: March 12
Died: 1729
Died: September 1
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