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To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
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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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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