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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.
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Born: May 31, 1744
Died: June 13, 1817 (aged 73)
Bio: Richard Lovell Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor.
Known for:
- An Essay on Irish bulls (1802)
- Essays on professional education (1809)
- Essays on Practical Education (1808)
- Richard Lovell Edgeworth
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