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'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
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Talk
Hours
Bore
Heaven
Greatly
Past
Bores
Report
Reports
Wise

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