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Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.Dion Boucicault
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I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.Dion Boucicault
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Men talk of killing time while time quietly kills them.Dion Boucicault
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Dion Boucicault was a Victorian era playwright and actor. He is best-remembered as a writer of popular Victorian era plays, including the first version of The Committee, which was later made into a play by Arthur Wing Pinero. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, on February 10, 1820. In 1833, his family immigrated to the United States, settling first in New York City and then in Boston
There he grew up at a time when Irish immigrants were being discriminated against by the dominant Anglo-Saxon population of the United States. At age 28 he left New York for London where he established himself as a writer and actor on the London stage. In 1855 Boucicault returned to America and lived briefly in New York City before moving back to Boston where he remained for the rest of his life.