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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Wendell Phillips

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
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Boston
Massachusetts
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