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We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

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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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.
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A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.
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That agony returns And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.
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