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If we be doomed to marry, we marry if we be doomed to remain single we do.

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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Dorchester
Dorset
Doomed
Marry
Remain
Single

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