Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you you…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. ✨ Samuel Coleridge, Epigram
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