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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
Robert Burns
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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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