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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
Dramaturgy
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
Browning
Innocence
Ignorant
Sin
Ignorance
Inspirational

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