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Robert Browning Quotes: What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.
         

What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.


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Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.



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It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.



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