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If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

William Gilbert

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William Gilbert
Age: 74 †
Born: 1836
Born: November 18
Died: 1911
Died: May 29
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