Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
As quoted in "Cosmo Listens to Records" http://www.mediafire.com/view/za1l4i1dftotwg9/.png by Nat Hentoff, in Cosmopolitan (November 1965)
“Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.”
Feb. 15, 1936
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(19 February 1756)
1750s, Diaries (1750s-1790s)
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