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Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.
William Allen White
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William Allen White
Age: 75 †
Born: 1868
Born: February 10
Died: 1944
Died: January 31
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