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Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
William S. Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1914
Born: February 5
Died: 1997
Died: August 11
Essayist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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