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For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

John Bunyan

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John Bunyan
Age: 59 †
Born: 1628
Born: November 28
Died: 1688
Died: August 31
Novelist
Preacher
Theologian
Writer
Elstow
Bedfordshire
John Bunyan
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