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What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

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Thomas Brooks
Age: 77 †
Born: 1880
Born: July 7
Died: 1958
Died: February 15
Politician
Thurgoland
South Yorkshire
Thomas Judson Brooks
Dreams
Nothings
Poor
Obtain
Pain
Pains
Dream
Shadows
Take
Vain
Things
Shadow
Life
Mere
World
Labor

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