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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.
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Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.
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Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
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