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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Anxiety
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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