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Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
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Inner and Outer London
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