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Thomas Hardy Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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This page presents the quote "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.". Author of this quote is Thomas Hardy. This quote is about time, rough times, flesh, faces, oblivion, anon, family,.