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And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.

James Russell Lowell

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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
Race
Toil
Two
Offered
Stills
Comparison
Problem
Rare
Still
Triumph
Human
Ease
Humans
Safe
Way
Ways
Disgrace

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