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Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.

Thomas Browne

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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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