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Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.

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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