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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.
Scipio Africanus
Born: 235 BC
Died: 183 BC (aged 52)
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