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Pity's akin to love and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.

Thomas Southerne

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Thomas Southerne
Age: 86 †
Born: 1660
Born: January 1
Died: 1746
Died: May 26
Dramatist
Playwright
Scandinavian Homestead
Welcome
Pity
Thought
Soul
Every
Kind
Love
Akin
Soft

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