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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
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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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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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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