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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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
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