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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1

Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)

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All in a spirit of human beings are equal in dignity and rights.
They are born free and should act
towards one another endowed with reason and conscience and brotherhood.

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All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act
towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

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> All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
> They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act
> towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

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