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The Biglow papers (1848)
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No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu,
An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.
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I don't believe in princerple,
But oh I du in interest.
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God makes sech nights, all white an' still,
Fur'z you can look or listen,
Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill,
All silence an' all glisten.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du
Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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Our papers don't purtend to print on'y wut Guv'ment choose,
An' thet insures us all to git the very best o' noose.
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But John P.
Robinson, he
Sez they did n't know everythin' down in Judee.
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A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat,
But hern went pity-Zekle.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow:
Don't never prophesy — onless ye know.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
James Russell Lowell
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Born:
February 22, 1819
Died:
August 12, 1891
(aged 72)
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