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Our wills are ours, we know not how Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 6
Died: 1892
Died: October 6
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It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.
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