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Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.

John Galsworthy

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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
Novelist
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Kingston
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Life
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Love

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