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He seemed to me to be one of those men who have not very extended minds, but who know what they know very well—shallow streams, and clear because they are shallow.
He seemed to me to be one of those men who have not very extended minds, but who know what they know very well—shallow streams, and clear because they are shallow.
Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 51 · printed citation: S. T. Coleridge (Table Talk). · compiler notes excluded
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