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Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

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
Love
Envied
Lovers
Soon
Else
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