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Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes: Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
         

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.


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