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Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

Thomas Browne

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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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Philosopher
Physician
Physician Writer
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London
England
Sir Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
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Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.
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As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.
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