[I]f there be any truer measure of a man, than by what he d… - Robert Southey

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[I]f there be any truer measure of a man, than by what he does, it must be, by what he gives.

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Robert Southey (August 12 1774 – March 21 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called Lake Poets, and Poet Laureate.

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[I]f there be any truer measure of a man, than by what he does, it must be, by what he gives. - Robert Southey

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