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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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