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To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

Walter Lippmann

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Walter Lippmann
Age: 85 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 23
Died: 1974
Died: December 14
Journalist
Politician
Writer
New York City
New York
Understand
Ends
Love
Pardon
Forgiveness
Understanding

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