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The rich man's sons inherits cares The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.
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
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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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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
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