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On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and talking like men who knew they would separate at dawn and travel to the far corners of the earth.
On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and talking like men who knew they would separate at dawn and travel to the far corners of the earth.
Approximate author period: c. 1971 AD · modern
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- Hunter S. Thompson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1971 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1937 to 2005; Wikidata Q219780, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219780 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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