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Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
Poet
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Surface
Truth
Spurn
Seeming
Error
Errors

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