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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
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