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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Dorchester
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Always
Surprised
Time
Surprise
Changes
Except
Within
Change
Everything
Something

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