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Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
Poet
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Treachery
Deceit
Anger
Hatred
Honest
Spirit

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