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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
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Friends should be weighed, not told who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.
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