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Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

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
Hopeful
Hopes
Progress
Hope
Men
Distinctive
Partly
Anticipation
Wholly

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