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In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is

Robert Herrick

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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
Poet
Writer
London
England
Slippery
Greatness
Ambition
Ways
Way
Think
Thinking

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