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If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
Clergyman
Hymnwriter
Priest
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Sweep
Hardly
Poverty
Left
Country
Enough
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Intemperance

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