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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Spilt
Procrastination
Suicide
Destroyed
Blood
Time

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