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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

Mikhail Lermontov

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Mikhail Lermontov
Age: 27 †
Born: 1814
Born: January 1
Died: 1841
Died: July 27
Artist
Military Officer
Novelist
Painter
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Michail Jur'evič Lermontov
Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich Lermontov
Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов
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Lever
Levers
Wished
Lift
Lifts
Vanity
Means
Earth
Archimedes

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