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On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.
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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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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