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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so life's business being just the terrible choice.

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
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London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
Browning
Good
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Men
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Life
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Choices
Evil
Neutralize
White
Absolve
Black
Compensate
Business
Wickedness

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