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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Breed
Wrath
Repentance
Lasting
Rage
Late
Heedless
Infamy
Hasty

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