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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 27th, 1807

Died: March 24th, 1882

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