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People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

Robert Greene

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Robert Greene
Age: 34 †
Born: 1558
Born: July 11
Died: 1592
Died: September 3
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Norwich
Norfolk
Masks
Mask
Complicated
Wear
Society
People

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