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have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- Walt Whitman
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- Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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