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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Robert Browning

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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
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Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
Browning
Purpose
Dry
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Nerves
Fall
Fail
Keep
Laugh
Begin
Failing
Laughing
Baffled
Eyes
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