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how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

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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
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Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.
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All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
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