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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Robert Southey
Born: August 12, 1774
Died: March 21, 1843 (aged 68)
Bio: Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843.
Known for:
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1837)
- Thalaba the Destroyer (1799)
- The life of Nelson (1813)
- Joan of Arc (poem)
- Madoc
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