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Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then

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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
Back
Skirts
Follows
Grave
Holds
Graves
Plausibility
Till
Overtakes
Praise
Clings
Truth
Afar

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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed Man is more than Constitutions better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
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