Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in …

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1835). Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, p.177
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