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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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County Roscommon
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Olivier Goldsmith
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