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No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
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
Massachusetts
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Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
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Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
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