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O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Leonardo da Vinci
Age: 67 †
Born: 1452
Born: April 15
Died: 1519
Died: May 2
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