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The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
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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Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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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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Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.
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