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What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.
Ivan Panin
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Ivan Panin
Age: 86 †
Born: 1855
Born: December 12
Died: 1942
Died: October 30
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Tsarist Russia
Ivan Nikolayevich Panin
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Our comforts come from God our sorrows, from ourselves.
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