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Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

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
Sincerity
Plain
Acceptance
True
Best
Imperial

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He guides me and the bird. In His good time!
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How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!
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Never brag, never bluster, never blush.
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