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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
| Eden Ahbez, Musician (1908) |
| Claudia Cardinale, Actress (1938) |
| Bliss Carman, Poet (1861) |
| Joe Davis, Celebrity (1901) |
| Dave Edmunds, Musician (1944) |
| Leonhard Euler, Mathematician (1707) |
| Luke Evans, Actor (1979) |
| Eva Figes, (1932) |
| Jay Garner, Soldier (1938) |
| Henry James, Writer (1843) |
| Simon Dach, Poet (1659) |
| William Empson, Poet (1984) |
| Oliver Evans, Inventor (1819) |
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| Jean Genet, Dramatist (1986) |
| Abraham Lincoln, President (1865) |


