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A rogue is a roundabout fool; a fool in circumbendibus.

A rogue is a roundabout fool; a fool in circumbendibus.

Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial

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Attribution & collection notes
Author or tradition
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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Recorded source
My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)

Page 226 · printed citation: S. T. Coleridge. · compiler notes excluded

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