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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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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The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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God is not dumb, that he should speak no more If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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