“Of my merit
On thet pint you yourself may jedge;
All is, I never drink no sperit,
Nor I haint never signed no pledge.”

—  James Russell Lowell

No. 7
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

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American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819–1891

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