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Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
Philip Sidney
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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
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Kent
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Sir Philip Sidney
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