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Damn those who have made my remarks before me!
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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
Aelius Donatus
Born:
320
Died:
380
(aged 60)
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Aelius Donatus was a Roman grammarian and teacher of rhetoric. St. Jerome tells us in Contra Rufinum 1.16 that Donatus was his tutor.
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