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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

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
Musical
Hearts
Heart
Every
Tuned
Strings
Differently
Hardest

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