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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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Sir Thomas Browne
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