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For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.
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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