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Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
Journalist
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Playwright
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London
England
William Collins
William Wilkie Collins
Tears
Beginning
Easy
Young
Come
Burst
Life
Crying
World
Leaving
Cry

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