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Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds
T. H. White
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T. H. White
Age: 57 †
Born: 1906
Born: May 29
Died: 1964
Died: January 17
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Terence Hanbury White
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The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.
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Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you can 't do that.
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