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We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Born: 1792
Born: April 6
Poet
World
Hatred
Neither
Walk
Walks
Told
Noiselessly
Sleep
Waken
May
Alas
Never
Envy

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