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We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.
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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It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.
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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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The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.
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Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.
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