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There is a southern proverb—fine words butter no parsnips.
Walter Scott
A Legend of Montrose (1819), Ch. 3.
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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
Walter Scott
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Born:
August 15, 1771
Died:
September 21, 1832
(aged 61)
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