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Women hate a debt as men a gift.

Robert Browning

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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
Dramaturgy
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Poet
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London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
Browning
Debt
Gift
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Women
Men

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O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.
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I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time.
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Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!
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I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
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