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If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?
Robert Dale Owen
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Robert Dale Owen
Age: 75 †
Born: 1801
Born: November 7
Died: 1877
Died: June 24
American Politician
Diplomat
Politician
Glasgow
Scotland
Wonder
Multitude
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Counsel
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