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The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.

Sara Coleridge

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Sara Coleridge
Age: 49 †
Born: 1803
Born: January 1
Died: 1852
Died: May 3
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Keswick
Cumbria
Mrs. Henry Nelson Coleridge
Sara Coleridge Coleridge
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