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Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Giovanni Ruffini

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Giovanni Ruffini
Age: 74 †
Born: 1807
Born: September 20
Died: 1881
Died: November 3
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