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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry: on the other hand poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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Born:
January 30, 1775
Died:
September 17, 1864
(aged 89)
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