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All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.
Robert Browning
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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
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London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
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Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
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Good to forgive, Best to forget.
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