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But a great deal of that is legend and doesn’t have anything to do with truth.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":43,"quote_text":44,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":25,"author":45,"source":46,"quote_tag":47,"commentary":9},3510660,"Many people one meets in life somehow think they know you simply because they’re hanging out at the same counter-but they really don’t know a thing about you.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":49,"quote_text":50,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":25,"author":51,"source":52,"quote_tag":53,"commentary":9},3510655,"Unfortunately they’re practically all dead. 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