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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
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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Journalist
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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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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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