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The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe
Age: 40 †
Born: 1809
Born: January 19
Died: 1849
Died: October 7
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I was cautious in what I said before the young lady for I could not be sure that she was sane and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.
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Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.
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Men have called me mad but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
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