Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an e…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. ✨ Biographia Literaria ch. 1 (1817)
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. ✨ Biographia Literaria ch. 1 (1817)

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