The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom al… - Robert Southey

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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.

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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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And so never ending, but always descending,
Sounds and motions forever and ever are blending
All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar, —
And this way the water comes down at Lodore.

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.

[W]onder is from surprise; and surprise ceases upon experience.

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