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To doubt is worse than to have lost And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Philip Massinger
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Philip Massinger
Age: 57 †
Born: 1583
Born: January 1
Died: 1640
Died: January 1
Dramatist
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Salisbury
England
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