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Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
Poet
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Innocent
Power
Eminence
Seldom
Envy

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