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Error is a hardy plant it flourisheth in every soil In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth.
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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