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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth
Age: 80 †
Born: 1770
Born: April 7
Died: 1850
Died: April 23
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The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.
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Free as a bird to settle where I will.
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The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.
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I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.
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Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.
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