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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.

Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Dorchester
Dorset
Life
Till
Shall
Dies
Keep
Certain
Thing
Long
Love
Wanting

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