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If I must have an ill, may it be real, That I may meet it eye to eye and fight, And wheresoever it may strength reveal Get after it with all my main and might. The woe that but impends and wears the mind With worry deep and most vexatious care, Is harder fighting than the realler kind, For when you come to strike—it isn't there!

John Kendrick Bangs

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John Kendrick Bangs
Age: 59 †
Born: 1862
Born: May 27
Died: 1922
Died: January 21
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Shakespeare Jones
Carlyle Smith
Care
Harder
Wheresoever
May
Meet
Woe
Might
Deep
Wears
Come
Strength
Strike
Must
Fight
Reveal
Real
Worry
Ill
Kind
Fighting
Strikes
Mind
Eye
Main
Vexatious

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