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How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

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
Writer
London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
Browning
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Fettered
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Fetters
Looks
Fast
Life
Lead
Seem
Strange
Freedom
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