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I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
Translator
London
England
Edmund Spencer
Learned
Small
Eyes
Common
Eye
Ever
Thing
Despise

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