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If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and walk down there. Travelling by car or aeroplane wouldn't be right at such a moment.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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