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We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

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
Glasses
Cracked
Flesh
Flawed
Window
Monster
Death
Windows
Look
Represents
Looks
Cheap
Believe
Glass
Monsters
Glazed

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