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Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!
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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
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London
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Robert Barrett Browning
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
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