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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.
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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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.
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May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
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Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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