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Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
Essayist
Poet
Translator
Writer
Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
Animal
Intruders
Fighting
Oppressor
Maine
Rather
Oppressors
Resister
Fall
Pleased
Primed
Found
Lets
Intruder
Shallow
Quill
Fight
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