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Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
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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The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.
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The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.
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He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.
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