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The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
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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When thieves come, I bark when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.
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He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.
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