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You can't order remembrance out of the mind and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Age: 52 †
Born: 1811
Born: July 18
Died: 1863
Died: December 24
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