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One is born, one runs up bills, one dies.

— Richard Curtis

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(English screenwriter and film director) and Ben Elton (British-Australian comedian and author). Stated by Rowan Atkinson playing Edmund Blackadder in the BBC situation comedy, Blackadder the Third, episode four, 'Amy and Amiability', 1987.

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