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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
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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A bitter and perplexed What shall I do? Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds man only can utter consonants.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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