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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Thing
Leisure
Excellent
Wealth
Liberty
Means
Power
May
Mean
Anarchy

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