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I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

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
Faces
Leaping
Times
Projecting
Family
Trait
Place
Trace
Live
Oblivion
Time
Traits
Flesh
Anon
Face
Perishes

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